Ivanka Trump came for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with the biggest self-own.

Ivanka Trump, the former sweatshop shoe "designer" currently serving as a White House senior advisor, is the face of meritocracy and earning what you get. The heiress who has spent her adult life working in jobs she secured on…

“Americans don’t want to be given [a job]. People want to work for what they get.”

— @IvankaTrump, who got her job without working for it because it was given to her by Daddy, who we only know because his own Daddy gave him $450M without working for it.pic.twitter.com/ElZX1PnWhO

Actually a lot of people would like a fair living wage & financial security for their families. "Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is, and has always been, a conservative fairytale meant to keep the working class down and allow the rich to keep profiting off of them. https://t.co/7ecztvyag0

When she said no to the trust fund and family fortune and began her professional life as a diner waitress in Yonkers while taking night classes in fashion design at a community college, that’s when I knew she was gonna be something. https://t.co/tXHZzTYOO9

so her logic is that paying people more money is bad, because people want to earn more money, so if you pay them more money like they want, they won't want it anymore because it's more money. great. airtight. https://t.co/1B8m95lKKN